AN INSTRUCTOR’S SOLUTIONS MANUAL TO ACCOMPANY

AN INTRODUCTION TO MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING, FOURTH EDITION,
SI EDITION
JONATHAN WICKERT
KEMPER LEWIS
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INSTRUCTOR'S SOLUTIONS MANUAL
TO ACCOMPANY

An Introduction to
Mechanical Engineering
Fourth Edition, SI Edition

JONATHAN WICKERT
Iowa State University

KEMPER LEWIS
University at Buffalo—SUNY
 Contents

Preface ................................................................................................................................ v

Chapter 2............................................................................................................................. 1

Chapter 3........................................................................................................................... 19

Chapter 4........................................................................................................................... 57

Chapter 5......................................................................................................................... 103

Chapter 6......................................................................................................................... 149

Chapter 7......................................................................................................................... 209

Chapter 8......................................................................................................................... 249

 Preface
With the exception of some open-ended problems, this Instructor's Solutions Manual
contains a solution to each of the numerical problems in the textbook An Introduction to
Mechanical Engineering, SI Version (Fourth Edition). The description and style of these
solutions (writing a brief approach, making sketches, keeping track of units, and discussing
and understanding the solution) are intended to guide students with respect to the
formatting, organization, and presentation of their own work.

In addition, the instructor supplements include a digital version of this manual, additional
Case Studies, and a set of Lecture Note PowerPoints. Our intention is that these resources
will be useful to instructors in several ways. First, instructors are able to easily import
photographs, drawings, and other art from the PowerPoints into their own handouts and
lectures without the burden of having to photocopy or scan from the textbook itself.
Second, since many courses today have companion web sites, instructors can use the
supplementary material to post electronic versions of solutions to their own problem sets.

We hope that you will find this Instructor's Solutions Manual to be a useful resource for
your own teaching of mechanical engineering courses at the freshman and sophomore
levels. As always, if you should have any comments on the textbook or manual, we would
certainly appreciate hearing from you.

Jonathan Wickert Kemper Lewis

Iowa State University University at Buffalo – SUNY
Ames, IA 50011 Buffalo, NY 14260
wickert@iastate.edu kelewis@buffalo.edu